Part 44

3. (Bot.) Zonate.

Zone"less (?), a. Not having a zone; ungirded.

The reeling goddess with the zoneless waist.

Cowper.

In careless folds, loose fell her zoneless vest.

Mason.

Zon"nar (?), n. See Zonar.

Zon"u*lar (?), a. Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped. "The zonular type of a placenta." Dana.

Zon"ule (?), n. A little zone, or girdle.

Zon"u*let (?), n. A zonule. Herrick.

Zon"ure (?), n. [Zone + Gr. &?; tail.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.

Zo"ö- (?). A combining form from Gr. zwo^,n an animal, as in zoögenic, zoölogy, etc.

Zo`ö*chem"ic*al (?), a. Pertaining to zoöchemistry.

Zo`ö*chem"is*try (?), n. [Zoö- + chemistry.] Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

Zo*öch"e*my (?), n. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; alchemy.] Animal chemistry; zoöchemistry. Dunglison.

||Zo`ö*chlo*rel"la (?), n. [NL., dim. from Gr. zw^,on an animal + &?; green.] (Zoöl.) One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.

Zo"ö*cyst (?), n. [Zoö- + cyst.] (Biol.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.

||Zo`ö*cy"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Zoöcytia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal + &?; a hollow vessel.] (Zoöl.) The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.

||Zo`ö*den"dri*um (?), n.; pl. Zoödendria (#). [NL., fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal + &?; a tree.] (Zoöl.) The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria.

||Zo*œ"ci*um (?), n.; pl. Zoœcia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. zw^,on an animal + &?; house.] (Zoöl.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

Zo`ö*e*ryth"rine (?), n. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; red.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

Zo*ög"a*mous (?), a. [Zoö- + Gr. &?; marriage.] (Biol.) Of or pertaining zoögamy.

Zo*ög"a*my (?), n. (Biol.) The sexual reproduction of animals.

Zo`ö*gen"ic (?), a. [Zoö- + -gen + -ic: cf. Gr. &?; born of an animal.] (Biol.) Of or pertaining to zoögeny, animal production.

{ Zo*ög"e*ny (?), Zo*ög"o*ny (?), } n. [Zoö- + root of Gr. &?; to be born, &?; offspring.] The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

Zo`ö*ge`o*graph"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to zoögraphy.

Zo`ö*ge*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Zoö- + geography.] The study or description of the geographical distribution of animals.

||Zo`ö*glœ"a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. zw^,on an animal + &?; any glutinous substance.] (Biol.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoöglœa is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.